Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that no one might go into the auditorium with a cloak or coat, since such were adapted to conceal bombs. Every wrap must be checked at the cloak room...
Students in school and college habitually display a self-conscious reticence about revealing their "inner selves" which serves as well to conceal the absence as the presence of ideas. Religion has been so much regarded as a purely personal matter that it is often stiffed for lack of an airing. For the purpose of bringing religion out in serious discussion with eminent and interesting men the Silver Bay conference is held yearly...
Judge Julian Mack. Bucketeers will no longer conceal their books behind the Constitution...
...that in the future, if the Secretary of State makes a statement about a foreign navy, he will not later have to retract it. This seems a step which should have been taken long ago. From its very nature naval information is hard to check-every nation tries to conceal its naval secrets. Naval attachés make such observations as they can, but it is practically impossible to get direct information from a foreign government...
...machine capable of doing a certain amount of work, he is beginning to realize that his assistant, like the cow in the famous story, "looks like a man, acts like a man, and in fact is a man". When a person is made to don a uniform and conceal his ego behind figures printed on a tin disc, he cannot help but lose some of his self-respect, and feel, naturally enough, that he is being put in the same class as a convict, or a Ford. In restoring to him his name and his peace of mind, the employer...